Gothic Seat Circa 150 Metres South West Of Painswick House

The Gothic seat, located approximately 150 meters southwest of Painswick House, is a garden element dating from around 1750, possibly designed by Thomas Robins. It features a large limestone ashlar block front and a rubble back wall, topped with a stone slate roof. The structure consists of a 3-bay open loggia with pointed arches that are separated by slender clustered colonnettes. The central opening is wider and has crenellations above a string course that is raised in the center section. At the back, there are two raking buttresses. Inside, there is a rectangular coved plaster vault; however, both this and the hipped roof were noted to be in poor condition during a survey in March 1986. This Gothic seat is part of a significant group of garden buildings within an important surviving rococo ensemble, situated at the end of a long north-south vista.